growth hacking

6 statements across 6 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Oct 26, 2015 by Matt Lerner · across every show →

Everything said about growth hacking, oldest first

Oct 26, 2015 negative
Insight
Startup growth stems from continuous iteration, not silver bullet hacks
“If you look at any of those silver bullets, and actually, you know, the people, and you saw what happened, you realize it was the result of a lot of trying stuff, and failing, and iterating, and optimizing.”
Matt Lerner Oct 26, 2015 ▶ 7:42 20 VC 082: 500 Startups Week: Growth Hacking 101: How To 10x Your Conversion with Matt Lerner, Head of Distro Dojo London
Jun 17, 2019
Insight
Hsu: Growth is fast, data-informed iteration, not growth hacking
“And when you use the word growth, we don't really mean growth hacking, but it's more like product development through the philosophy of growth, which is really about being fast, being very data, being highly data informed. You know, it's not necessarily data d…”
Jonathan Hsu Jun 17, 2019 ▶ 13:16 20VC: Why Historical Loss Ratios Are Simply Too High, Why Data Is The #1 Most Important Piece When Evaluating Effective Reserve Allocation & Why Nothing Is Truly Defensible Today with Jonathan Hsu, Co-Founder and General Partner @ Tribe Capital
Sep 22, 2021 negative
Insight
Winters: Scaling growth requires deep engineering work, not quick hacks
“Growth is done in a team, and it's not just hacks or experiments. Like, it requires understanding the growth model of the business, where the constraints are, and potentially doing quick hacks, but a lot of times deep engineering work to actually scale the bus…”
Casey Winters Sep 22, 2021 ▶ 39:35 Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
Feb 16, 2022 negative
Opinion
Ed Baker: Growth Hacking Has Become Overly Quantitative and Metric-Focused
“I think growth has become almost too quantitative and analytical, and when people talk about growth hacking, they're almost like focused too much on the metrics. For me, the most exciting part is the creative side of growth, coming up with super creative ways …”
Ed Baker Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 46:06 20Growth: Five Key Functions of a Growth Team, The Biggest Lessons Starting Uber's Growth Team and Scaling Facebook's, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth and What Separates Good From Great in Growth Leaders with Ed Baker, Former VP of Growth @
Apr 6, 2022 negative
Opinion
Using the term 'growth hacking' is a yellow flag, says Brian Hale
“I would banish the term growth hacking. So it's not hacking if you're doing it properly, and I would say, actually, if you're talking about growth hacking, at least a yellow flag, because ultimately, if you're doing it well, what you're doing is you're doing g…”
Brian Hale Apr 6, 2022 ▶ 34:34 20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Retention Levels Today, The Most Counterintuitive Elements of Product and Growth & Why So Many Startups Mess Up Hiring For Growth Teams with Brian Hale, Head of Consumer Product & Growth @
Oct 26, 2022
Insight
Sahgal: Growth is about multi-year impact, not short-term growth hacking spikes
“It's also not growth hacking, which is a term I absolutely hate because it makes it seem like it's this kind of short term hacky thing people, people do to get a little spike. That's absolutely not true. Growth is really about the long term. Right. And it's ab…”
Vaibhav Sahgal Oct 26, 2022 ▶ 11:21 Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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